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Mathematica and BattleBots

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the math-only-mostly-useless dept.

hesheboy writes "Wolfram.com has a story about building a battlebot with Mathematica: 'October 28, 2002--Looking for action with brains-over-brawn appeal? William McHargue, a freelance physicist and long-time Mathematica user, is one of many who find this combination in BattleBots, the new fighting-robot craze. "With BattleBots, one can be aggressive and yet nobody gets hurt," says McHargue. Recently, McHargue was featured in Mechanical Engineering magazine for work on Tesla's Tornado, his BattleBot.'"

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  1. While reading by jukal · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...remember that Wolfram.com the site on which the story resied == Mathematica. The company whose product Mathematica is. So, do not expect to see something unprejudiced. It's an interesting story anyway :)

  2. Website by Kj0n · · Score: 4, Informative

    Found on Google: the official website.

  3. Re:Any Free Alternative? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want something like matlab that is open source (GPL) you can take a look at Octave (www.octave.org). Nothing symbolic in the basic design, but maybe some component that is symbolic and runs in octave? I hav'nt looked into that program that much.

  4. Re:Any Free Alternative? by krazyninja · · Score: 4, Informative
    You can try Scilab from here. It is a free scientific computation tool, feel-like-matlab clone.

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